First chaeto run

[Heres_doe_]

How long till your chaeto started reducing nitrates? What light are you using? What size fuge area.

 

[moz71]

Never helped my nitrate problem but did lower my phosphate. just my experience

 

[Heres_doe_]

Never helped my nitrate problem but did lower my phosphate. just my experience

How big of a dt and how big of a fuge

 

[trvrstnk4837]

These pics were taken just under a month apart my Nitrates we’re at almost 30ppm and now I have to bring it up I’m at 0.0 ( I also reduced bio load but I still lost all that with no water change)

it went from 2 small baseball sized chunks I got at my LFS to basically a soccer ball this is the light I am using

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[Heres_doe_]

These pics were taken just under a month apart my Nitrates we’re at almost 30ppm and now I have to bring it up I’m at 0.0 ( I also reduced bio load but I still lost all that with no water change)

it went from 2 small baseball sized chunks I got at my LFS to basically a soccer ball this is the light I am using

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Just grabbed 2 baseball sized chunks today. How many gallons in the dt

 

[Lavey29]

These pics were taken just under a month apart my Nitrates we’re at almost 30ppm and now I have to bring it up I’m at 0.0 ( I also reduced bio load but I still lost all that with no water change)

it went from 2 small baseball sized chunks I got at my LFS to basically a soccer ball this is the light I am using

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What is in your far right chamber next to the fuge?

 

[Heres_doe_]

What is in your far right chamber next to the fuge?

Looks like rock

 

[Lavey29]

How long till your chaeto started reducing nitrates? What light are you using? What size fuge area.

I wouldn't rely on a fuge as a fix all for nitrates but I do like the natural approach. Mine has been active over a year now. Chaeto grows huge and pruned back weekly. My nitrates stay consistent around 10. I feed heavy twice a day and have a very full bioload.

 

[Lavey29]

Looks like rock

I can't really tell for certain.

 

[Heres_doe_]

I wouldn't rely on a fuge as a fix all for nitrates but I do like the natural approach. Mine has been active over a year now. Chaeto grows huge and pruned back weekly. My nitrates stay consistent around 10. I feed heavy twice a day and have a very full bioload.

I don't

 

[Lavey29]

I don't

For me, once my tank passed the one year mark everything like nitrates became much more consistent and stable. I dose PNS probio weekly which is a natural bacteria supplement that eliminates organic waste before it becomes nitrates. Keeps the tank sparkling clean.

 

[Uncle99]

50 gallon refuge for 180 DY and 50 sump.
My chaeto is about 2ft x 1ft x 1ft.
Nitrate slowly but consistently dropped over 3 months from 25 to 10ppm and been holding there for a year or so now.
Once a month, I toss about 25%.
Heavy feeder and 4 large tangs.

 

[Heres_doe_]

For me, once my tank passed the one year mark everything like nitrates became much more consistent and stable. I dose PNS probio weekly which is a natural bacteria supplement that eliminates organic waste before it becomes nitrates. Keeps the tank sparkling clean.

Tank before this was running a bit over a year all this rock was also mature rock to speed up the process so i can move everything from previous tank to this one. I just want them at a stable number so i can do less water changes.

 

[Lavey29]

Tank before this was running a bit over a year all this rock was also mature rock to speed up the process so i can move everything from previous tank to this one. I just want them at a stable number so i can do less water changes.

I've cut water changes to every 3 weeks now but doing that requires other supplements like trace elements dosing too.

 

[trvrstnk4837]

What is in your far right chamber next to the fuge?

Just some left over rock and the return pumps

 

[trvrstnk4837]

Just grabbed 2 baseball sized chunks today. How many gallons in the dt

its a 125, nice yeah I though about buying enough to fill my fuge but I’m glad I saved my money with how fast it grew … same with the light I was looking into more expensive lights but ended up snagging mine at Walmart with the attitude of if it wasn’t working super well I wasn’t out much money but it’s working great

 

[moz71]

How big of a dt and how big of a fuge

125 gal tank, fuge is about 15 galof a 30 gal sump.

 

[Heres_doe_]

Update so i went from .1 ppm phosphates to .04 in 2 days nothing on nitrates yet